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Breast cancer might be detected up to five years before there are any clinical signs of it, using a blood test that identifies the body’s immune response to substances produced by tumour cells.
At its center for advanced rapid diagnostics (CARD), Mologic  with funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  attained the ambitious milestone of 1pg/mL sensitivity in a visually read lateral-flow device. © Mologic

Synbio specialist Sherlock Biosciences and next-generation lateral flow testing expert Mologic Ltd have joined forces to develop a no-instrument rapid testing platform detecting virtually every infectious pathogen in low resource settings.

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German researchers have shown that a protein protects against the development of liver fibrosis by shutting down inflammatory signalling in liver stellate cells of the liver. 

Cultured myocytes. © bit bio

Cell reprogramming specialist bit bio has expanded its management with renowned experts in the field.

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Swiss biotech company BioVersys AG has received a €8m grant by US-based non-profit organisation CARB-X to develop novel anti-virulence antibiotics to treat severe bacterial infections.

MxA activates the inflammasome: Specks of ASC, one of inflammasome proteins (indicated by arrows), were observed in the lung epithelial cells of transgenic mice infected with the influenza A virus (IAV), which expressed ihuman MxA, but not in IAV-infected mice without human MxA (non-Tg) at day three post-infection. © Lee et al., Sci. Immunol. 4, eaau4643 (2019)

A team of Japanese and German researchers has found the protein that helps activate the inflammasome following viral invasion.

Rotaviruses. © CDC

Researchers at University Lyon have found a potential repurposing application of two market-approved rotavirus vaccines.

Swiss Polyphor AG and researchers from the University of Zurich have presented the mechanism of action of a new class of antibiotics.
 

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Zealand Pharma A/S has acquired Encycle Therapeutics Inc, including a peptide therapeutics platform and library.
 

Localisation of FSP1 in green, cell nucleus in yellow, endoplasmic reticulum in magenta. © Rudolf Virchow Centre for Experimental Biomedicine University of Würzburg

German researchers have found a novel way to induce iron-induced necrosis, a process which they want to turn against cancer.